Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 227 323
Rank change year-on-year -146 +96 -66
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 473 683 787
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.39% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.54% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 249 304 442
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,763 £37,639
25th Percentile £48,750 £59,857 £51,310
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year - +6.47% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,631 44,290 76,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 90.03% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 50,962 24,903 52,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -123 434 £63,076 -13.00% 596
London -33 252 £71,028 -11.22% 436
Work from Home +30 239 £63,038 -3.02% 223
UK excluding London -186 177 £62,500 - 194
North of England -5 67 £63,076 -18.61% 44
North West +14 45 £85,000 +17.24% 23
South East -150 30 £40,000 -36.00% 67
East of England -12 27 £65,000 -9.72% 18
Midlands -44 26 £53,750 -20.37% 26
South West -79 22 £68,528 +14.21% 15
West Midlands -23 21 £57,500 -14.81% 15
Yorkshire -37 19 £60,850 -22.73% 20
Scotland +7 5 £85,000 +4.62% 14
East Midlands -30 5 £37,500 -47.37% 11
North East -45 3 £63,076 -23.54% 1
Wales -57 2 £67,251 +12.35% 5
Northern Ireland -71 1 - - 8

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (2.96%) Confluence
3 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.06%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) Moqups
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.25%) Workfront
2 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.85%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Eikon
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.21%) RMDS
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 75 (15.86%) SaaS
2 66 (13.95%) AWS
3 53 (11.21%) iPaaS
4 51 (10.78%) Azure
5 16 (3.38%) GCP
6 15 (3.17%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.54%) GitHub
9 10 (2.11%) Figma
10 9 (1.90%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.27%) Asana
14 5 (1.06%) Google Workspace
14 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.06%) Miro
15 4 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 4 (0.85%) Serverless
16 3 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 62 (13.11%) Broadband
2 30 (6.34%) HTTP
3 10 (2.11%) WAN
4 8 (1.69%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.48%) Firewall
6 6 (1.27%) LAN
7 5 (1.06%) Network Security
7 5 (1.06%) NGN
8 4 (0.85%) MPLS
8 4 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.63%) Intranet
9 3 (0.63%) WLAN
10 2 (0.42%) DNS
10 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.42%) Multicast
10 2 (0.42%) SAN
10 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.42%) VoIP
10 2 (0.42%) Wireless
11 1 (0.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (11.21%) Metadata
2 14 (2.96%) Power BI
3 5 (1.06%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.63%) Big Data
4 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.63%) Tableau
5 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.42%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.21%) MySQL
6 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.21%) Redis
6 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (6.34%) JIRA
2 6 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Postman
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 157 (33.19%) Marketing
2 155 (32.77%) Social Skills
3 137 (28.96%) Finance
4 68 (14.38%) Banking
5 60 (12.68%) Retail
6 59 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (10.99%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (9.94%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (9.51%) Law
10 43 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (6.77%) Public Sector
12 28 (5.92%) Legal
13 21 (4.44%) Back Office
14 17 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (2.96%) Italian Language
15 14 (2.96%) Retail Banking
16 13 (2.75%) Manufacturing
17 11 (2.33%) German Language
18 10 (2.11%) Telecoms
19 9 (1.90%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 151 (31.92%) Product Manager
2 76 (16.07%) Product Owner
3 68 (14.38%) Senior
4 63 (13.32%) Lead
5 42 (8.88%) Senior Manager
6 39 (8.25%) Senior Product Manager
7 38 (8.03%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.55%) Development Engineer
9 30 (6.34%) Software Development Engineer
10 24 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (4.23%) Developer
12 16 (3.38%) Consultant
13 15 (3.17%) Platform Manager
13 15 (3.17%) Product Lead
14 14 (2.96%) Business Consultant
14 14 (2.96%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (2.96%) Development Consultant
15 12 (2.54%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.54%) Cloud Developer
15 12 (2.54%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.98%) REST
2 6 (1.27%) CSS
2 6 (1.27%) HTML
2 6 (1.27%) LangChain
3 4 (0.85%) LangGraph
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.85%) PyTorch
3 4 (0.85%) Spring
3 4 (0.85%) Spring Boot
3 4 (0.85%) TensorFlow
4 3 (0.63%) .NET
4 3 (0.63%) React
5 2 (0.42%) CrewAI
5 2 (0.42%) FHIR
5 2 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.42%) LlamaIndex
5 2 (0.42%) Pandas
5 2 (0.42%) Plotly
5 2 (0.42%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (36.15%) Product Ownership
2 63 (13.32%) Social Media
3 54 (11.42%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.42%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.61%) Cloud Native
5 31 (6.55%) Public Cloud
6 18 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.54%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (2.33%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (2.11%) Educational Technology
13 8 (1.69%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (1.27%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.90%) Linux
2 7 (1.48%) Windows
3 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.21%) CentOS
4 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.21%) Unix
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (62.58%) Roadmaps
2 216 (45.67%) Agile
3 141 (29.81%) Product Roadmap
4 126 (26.64%) Product Vision
5 108 (22.83%) Decision-Making
6 102 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 98 (20.72%) AI
8 95 (20.08%) User Stories
9 90 (19.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 87 (18.39%) Customer Experience
11 86 (18.18%) Product Backlog
12 77 (16.28%) Product Requirements
13 76 (16.07%) Sprint Planning
14 72 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (15.22%) Software Engineering
15 68 (14.38%) Workflow
16 67 (14.16%) User Experience
17 66 (13.95%) Mentoring
18 63 (13.32%) Matrix Organization
18 63 (13.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 39 (8.25%) Java
2 21 (4.44%) Python
3 12 (2.54%) SQL
4 11 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.27%) Bicep
6 3 (0.63%) Bash
6 3 (0.63%) C#
6 3 (0.63%) C++
6 3 (0.63%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.63%) PHP
6 3 (0.63%) R
6 3 (0.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.21%) C
7 1 (0.21%) Perl
7 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 73 (15.43%) Degree
2 11 (2.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (1.90%) HND
3 9 (1.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.69%) HNC
5 6 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.85%) CCNA
7 4 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.85%) CSPO
7 4 (0.85%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.63%) CISSP
8 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.42%) ACCA
9 2 (0.42%) CIMA
9 2 (0.42%) Dell Certification
9 2 (0.42%) MBA
9 2 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.29%) QA
2 19 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.11%) GDPR
4 6 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.85%) PERC
5 4 (0.85%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) DICOM
6 2 (0.42%) HL7
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.27%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) Firmware
3 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.96%) Terraform
2 5 (1.06%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.63%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.42%) WSUS
5 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (12.68%) Adobe
2 47 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.54%) Oracle
4 10 (2.11%) Cisco
4 10 (2.11%) Google
5 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.06%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.06%) Juniper
7 4 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (0.85%) Toshiba
8 3 (0.63%) Aderant
8 3 (0.63%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.63%) Facebook
8 3 (0.63%) iManage
8 3 (0.63%) Reuters
8 3 (0.63%) VMware
9 2 (0.42%) CQG
9 2 (0.42%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.42%) Red Hat